Hammer



Dec. 31, 1929.

' s. w. GfiEGERSEN HAMMER Filed April 27 1925 Patented Dec. 31, 1929 y r1,742,032

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SIEGFRIED W. GREGERSEN, F CROOKS'ION,NEBRASKA HAMMER Application filed April 27, 1925. Serial No. 26,135.

The object of the invention is to provide a are arranged one closer tothe poll 6 than the hammer equipped with means for holding in other toaccommodate nails of different the hand grasping the hammer, the nail tolengths to permit the point projecting beyond be used and efi'ecting theinitial starting of the poll.

the nail as where the hammer is used by a In the use of the device, theinitial starting oneshanded person or when the left hand is of the nailis effected by placing it with the used to hold the board or the likewhile startshank in engagement with the rib and the ing a nail; and toprovide a construction of head in engagement with the desired abutthischaracter in which provision. is made ment, it being retained in thisposition by the 10 for holding nails of different lengths so that thumbwhen the head of the hammer is they may be readily started in the boardgrasped in the hand. A single blow is then with the one hand holding thehammer. sufficient to effect the necessary penetration With this objectin view, the invention coninto a board to retain the nail in the boardsists in a construction and combination of and following this, thehandle of the hammer 15 parts of which a preferred embodiment is il maybe grasped in the hand and the nail lustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, driven home. The lugs 2 and 3 provide the wherein: impactelements of the initial starting and Figure 1 is a side elevational viewof ahamthe rib a lateral abutment to maintain the mer constructed inaccordance with the inalignment of the nail with the hammer head.

i 20 vention. The invention having been described, what Figure 2 is atop plan view. is claimed as new and useful is:

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view on 1.. A hammer head havinglateral nail abutthe plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figment lugs andan adjacent rib for lateral abuture 1. ment with the shank of the nail,the lugs be- 25 Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view on ing laterallyspaced and spaced different disthe plane indicated by the line 44 ofFigtances from the hammer poll and the rib beure 1. ing arranged on aline intermediate between The hammer head 1, which may be cast' theaxial lines of the lugs. or drop forged or machined out of solid 2. Ahammer head having lateral nail abut- 0 stock, depending on the grade oftool to be mentlugs and an adjacent rib for lateral abutproduced, isformed with lateral lugs or proment with the shank of the nail, the lugsbeing jections2 and 3 in the region of the eye of laterally spaced andspaced different disthe head, these lugs or projections constituttancesfrom the hammer poll and the rib being ing abutments for the heads ofnails 4 indiarranged on a line intermediate between the cated in dottedlines in Figure 1. The hamaxial lines of the lugs, and the hammer beingmer head adjacent the abutments 2 and 3 is recessed adjacent the lugs toprovide clearrecessed, as indicated at 5, to provide clearance spacesfor nail heads to permit the shanks ance spaces for the nail heads topermit the to lie against the side of the head.

shanks to lie against the head and against the In testimony whereof heaffixes his signa- 49 peripheral edge of the poll 6. ture.

Formed integral with the hammer head on SIEGFRIED W. GREGERSEN. theshank 7 of the poll is a lateral rib 8 extending axially of the poll andon a line intermediate between the axial line of the 45 shanks of nailsengaging the two abutments,

so that a nail whose head is engaged with the abutment 2 may lie againstthe under side of the rib while a nail whose head is engaged by theabutment 3 may lie against the upper side of the rib. The abutment lugs2 and 3

